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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Nick Clifton'" <nickc@redhat.com>,
	"'Vincent Rubiolo'" <vincent.rubiolo@windriver.com>
Cc: "'Pieter Arnout'" <pieter@powerescape.com>,
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Subject: RE: HELP with linker script!!!
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:13:00 -0000
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----Original Message----
>From: Nick Clifton
>Sent: 01 April 2005 15:02


> The other way is hackier, but it avoids the warnings:
> 
>    int foo __attribute__((section (".cached_bss,\"w\",@nobits#")));
> 
> This assumes that the hash character (#) is the start-of-line-comment
> character for the particular instruction set you are using.  If you have
> a look at the assembler emitted by GCC you can see why:
> 
>          .section        .cached_bss,"w",@nobits#,"aw",@progbits
> 
> The hash stops GAS from interpreting the
> 
>    ,"aw",@probits
> 
> which gcc has appended to the name of the section...

  <koff>  *start*-of-line comment character .........  <g>

  You could either add a \n before the # or use a ';' or whatever the port
uses for the mid-line comment character.......

  And boy, is that _ever_ a gross hack!  (I quite like it!)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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